Unit D – Owl and the Pussycat

This literacy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds. The class can complete sentences to describe alternative settings in the same story.

Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds

Lesson One : Story Places

Identify, define and list special vocabulary words that can be used to describe some of the settings that feature in a traditional story

Lesson Two : Story Lists

Select and record lists of different objects that can match some of the narrative sequence of events that occurred in a traditional story

Lesson Three : Story Journeys

Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale

Lesson Four : Story Map

Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative

Lesson Five : Story Sentences

Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat

  • City Counting

    City Counting

    Practise counting and recording matching sets of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to illustrate and record some of the special things that can be seen around a city

  • House Windows

    House Windows

    Count, match and record different numbers of windows that could be seen on houses that have been built in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty

  • Flat Block

    Flat Block

    Match and record different numbers of objects that could be seen in flats that have been built in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty

  • Road Traffic

    Road Traffic

    Count, match and record different numbers of vehicles that could be seen travelling on a road in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty